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help installing jre-6u21-linux-i586-rpm on ubuntu

Asked by James Leu

 Hi i tried installing sun java's jre-6u21-linux-i586-rpm.bin and seems i'm doing something wrong or the instructions that java has is wrong.
I keep getting errors !

help me please !

                                                           Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You don't use RPM. RPM is for other distros like Manriva and RedHat. Ubuntu uses DEB files. The file you have is useless to you and also unnecessary. Use this guide and you will get java:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-install-sun-java-runtime-environment-jre-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx.html

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#2

You can also try this http://wojox.homelinux.org/?p=78

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E. Mark Mitchell (bbanzai123) said : 		#3

I seem to be suffering the same issue, but your second link appears to be dead, and your first link... when I try the "get update" command (the second step), I get

E: Malformed line 54 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)

Which stops everything from that point forward. Suggestions?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Can you give the output of:

head -n 54 /etc/apt/sources.list | tail -n 1

Thanks

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

Please be sure to install a deb related file, not a rpm file, rpm are for Fedora and RedHat distribution derivate...
Please copy here the entire content of the /etc/apt/sources.list file.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Ubuntu already has java in the partner repo. If you enable it in software centre you can close it, then run:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts

And you will have sun java....

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